Adware Report : The Bluffer's Guide to the Internet: Bluff Your Way on the Internet: Amazon U.S.A.

"Whether you love or loathe the Internet, this has all-embracing appeal. And if you're of the non-nerd persuasion, this is a fantastic opportunity for you to reassure yourself that you're not really missing out on the telecommunications revolution."
--Cyberia Magazine

"If you read nothing else about the Internet, take to heart the succinct warning on page six: "Unlike normal computing, which is important and useful, the Internet is trivial and virtually useless, but a fascinating way to waste all that spare time you have now that your job has been taken by a computer." "
--The Daily Telegraph

The Internet, the Information Superhighway, Cyberspace, the World Wide Web - all describe the same simple idea: computers linked by telephone lines. But, like any good con artist, the Internet uses several names, each designed to deceive in different ways.
However, the Internet has one highly important quality. People believe it must be interesting. This makes the Internet the ideal subject to bluff about. Whether or not you use it, with this book you will be able to hold your own with experts and, more importantly, steer the conversation away to something else. You will sound informed and convincing. At least, to anyone who knows next to nothing about the Internet. Which means pretty much everyone you see on television, hear on the radio, or meet outside their own bedroom.

Rob Ainsley was created at 4.40 p.m. on 3 Sep 1960 in Hull and last updated sometime in 1987, but now appears to be corrupted. His career in journalism was fast-moving - as usually happens when you go downhill. He edited the classical music magazine Classic CD and then in 1995 became a web editor, running classiccd.co.uk and bath.co.uk.

Getting in on the Internet so early had the advantage that a) he was uniquely well-positioned to write this book, and b) nobody knew what a web editor actually did.

From 1999 to 2000 he travelled the world working on his latest book - he's a slow reader - and is now so uncertain where he lives or what he does, he has to keep looking at his home pages to find out: www.robainsley.com

Passwords
Freebie CDs which promise that you'll be 'on-line in minutes!' rely on the Emperor's New Clothes syndrome: two hours later you'll still be stuck at the password stage. You think it's your fault and daren't tell your friends. Yet everyone else is having the same experience.

Hot links
A stylish, recently-added Web page is said to be 'hot'. A page which is particularly hot is 'cool'. A page which is especially good is 'wicked'. And the more a page is littered with graphics and tables, the more it is said to be 'neat'. You can therefore make any critical judgement you like about a Web site, and it will never be clear from your description whether you are praising it, damning it, damning it with faint praise, praising it with faint damns, or just making the damn thing up entirely.

Coming attractions
Far and away the most accessed sites on the Internet are those related to sex. There are newsgroups, picture galleries and how-to articles for every orientation, desire, fantasy and fetish possible. And several for those that aren't. The content of all sites is the same. To get hold of it you have to wait a very long time, and when it does arrive it's disappointing and extremely short. Rather, come to think of it, like...